The thin veil of sunset clouds could not block the sunlight.
The room was brightly lit in the early morning.
Shen Wan woke up, sat on the bed and stretched. Yin Shuang and Hai Tang, who were guarding outside the door, heard the noise and brought water into the room to help Shen Wan get up.
Shen Wan woke up a quarter of an hour later than usual. When she sat down at her dressing table, Xie Jingyan had already returned from his morning exercise.
When he entered the room, Shen Wan was applying makeup in front of a bronze mirror. Xie Jingyan saw this and said, "Let me help you apply makeup."
Shen Wan has been married to him for so long, and Xie Jingyan has never drawn her eyebrows before. She also wants to experience what it feels like to be a wife who treats her with the same respect and affection as her husband.
Xie Jingyan walked over, and Shen Wan handed him the eyebrow pencil. Xie Jingyan took it, and Shen Wan tilted her head slightly so that he could draw her eyebrows.
Xie Jingyan gently drew eyebrows with a pencil, while Yinshuang and Haitang stood by watching.
But after watching for a short while, the two maids started shaking their shoulders.
After enduring it for a while, I couldn't take it anymore and quickly left.
Shen Wan's neck was sore from looking up so long when she asked, "Is it not finished yet?"
Xie Jingyan said, "It's still a little short."
He draws on the left and on the right.
It just can't be symmetrical.
Either the left eyebrow is drawn too high, or the right eyebrow is drawn too low.
After a series of corrective actions, her willow-leaf eyebrows were transformed into willow-leaf shapes.
It's still the kind that's lush and green.
Xie Jingyan, "..."
Shen Wan glanced at the bronze mirror.
real.
It was so ugly I cried.
What's even more infuriating is that, even though they were all so ugly they were unbearable to look at, some bastard still lied to her and said, "They're beautiful."
She's not blind!
Shen Wan was so angry she wanted to strangle Xie Jingyan. She had never looked so ugly in her life. She walked to the washstand, wrung out her embroidered handkerchief, and turned to wipe herself in front of the bronze mirror. Yin Shuang came in and saw her princess's murderous eyebrows, forgetting what she was supposed to report when she entered the room.
When Shen Wan reached the dressing table, Yin Shuang remembered and stepped forward to report, "This morning at court, many ministers requested His Majesty to establish an heir apparent. Some requested the eldest prince, and others requested the Prince of Jin..."
Shen Wan was in a terrible mood and said irritably, "Isn't this something that happens all the time?"
It happens every few days, if not every three or four days.
Yinshuang shook her head repeatedly. If only one thing had happened, the news wouldn't have reached the Ling Prince's residence, and she wouldn't have needed to come in and inform the Prince and Princess.
Yinshuang said, "Usually, when the ministers propose to establish a crown prince, the emperor interrupts them. This time, the emperor did not stop them. The ministers who proposed to establish the eldest prince and the ministers who proposed to establish the Prince of Jin were arguing fiercely in the court. The emperor asked Prince Cheng, who is more suitable to be the crown prince, the Prince of Jin or the eldest prince..."
Shen Wan's handkerchief was touching her eyebrows when she heard this, and she raised an eyebrow.
The Emperor's question was tantamount to putting Prince Cheng on the stake.
The fact that the Empress Dowager was supporting the eldest prince was common knowledge among all the officials.
But King Cheng secretly supported King Jin.
The fact that the Emperor did not stop his courtiers from discussing the selection of an heir could mean that he was not truly considering it. Prince Cheng was the Emperor's own brother, and his words carried considerable weight in the Emperor's mind.
Whoever Prince Cheng thinks is suitable, the Emperor might consider making him the Crown Prince.
If King Cheng were to answer that he should establish King Jin, the Empress Dowager would definitely be angry.
If King Cheng were to answer that he would establish the eldest prince, King Jin would be disappointed, and that disappointment would create discord.
Shen Wan couldn't wait to know how Prince Cheng would answer this question, so she asked, "Who does Prince Cheng think is more suitable?"
Yinshuang shook her head. "Prince Cheng didn't choose anyone. He thinks that Your Highness is the most suitable to be the crown prince."
Shen Wan, “…???”
Xie Jingyan, “…???”
The two exchanged a glance, both somewhat puzzled as to what King Cheng was planning to do.
Prince Cheng, who should have been supporting the eldest prince alongside the Empress Dowager, secretly helped Prince Jin, but publicly told the Emperor that Xie Jingyan was the most suitable candidate for crown prince.
What is King Cheng really thinking?
Are you trying to have your cake and eat it too?
Or did Prince Cheng feel that Xie Jingyin and the eldest prince were doomed and could not amount to anything, so he abandoned the darkness and turned to them?
Thinking of how Prince Cheng prevented Xie Jingyin from handing over the evidence of the Meizhou granary fire to the Emperor, thus preventing the Crown Prince and Xie Jingyin from suffering mutual losses, Shen Wan felt no goodwill towards Prince Cheng.
A cold glint flashed in Xie Jingyan's eyes. He had really underestimated Prince Cheng. He had asked his father to ask Prince Cheng in front of all the civil and military officials who was more suitable to be the crown prince, in order to force Prince Cheng to choose between the eldest prince and Prince Jin and sow discord between the other. He did not expect that Prince Cheng would not choose either of them and drag him into it.
All the officials knew who the Emperor had chosen as the Crown Prince and would not consider him. However, Prince Cheng insisted that he was suitable, which displeased the Emperor. The dispute over the succession ended there, and the Emperor would never ask Prince Cheng a single question again.
Previously, he recommended Lord Chen to be appointed Minister of Rites, but Prince Cheng repeatedly obstructed it. Many people said behind his back that Prince Cheng was ungrateful. He had saved the life of Prince Cheng's heir, but Prince Cheng did not give him any face. Now that Prince Cheng has publicly asked him to be made crown prince, people are saying that Prince Cheng is grateful and repays kindness.
Shen Wan glanced at Xie Jingyan before asking Yin Shuang, "What did the Emperor say after Prince Cheng answered?"
Prince Cheng said that Xie Jingyan was the most suitable to be the crown prince. The emperor looked displeased and said in a deep voice, "I ask you, between Prince Qin and Prince Jin, who is more suitable to be the crown prince!"
Prince Cheng said, “Your Majesty asked me, so I will say a few words from the bottom of my heart. Before Consort Chen’s incident, Your Majesty had been grooming Prince Ling as the crown prince. Prince Ling is more suitable to be an emperor, both in terms of temperament and strategy.”
"Your Majesty, I have always believed that it was Consort Chen who was at fault, and that we should not blame Prince Ling..."
Before Prince Cheng could finish speaking, the Emperor got up and left with a furious expression.
Eunuch Yuan hadn't expected the Emperor to stop attending the morning court session halfway through just because Prince Cheng mentioned Consort Chen. He hurriedly called out, "Court adjourned."
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